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Humankind's influence on the state of the natural environment

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>> No.4412514

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/26/the-skeptics-case/

>> No.4412517

>Koyaanisquatsi

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>> No.4412536

>>4412517
>implying that film didn't have a pertinent message for mankind

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Mexico City. The largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere.

>> No.4412545

Requesting images of Superfund sites please

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>> No.4412568

See >>4407855

Sci doesn't care about the environment.

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>>4412568
What if I don't either, and I just want to post pictures of pollution?

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>> No.4412581

What if this is what we're supposed to do? What makes this any worse than the "natural" state of the world?

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>China

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>> No.4412611

>>4412602
That's not even pollution. That's recycling.

>> No.4412614

>>4412581

>What if this is what we're supposed to do?

I don't even know what this question is supposed to mean.

>What makes this any worse than the "natural" state of the world?

Polluted environments are by definition deliterious to most life including humans. The negative consequences are biochemical and psychological.

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>>4412611
lol

I'm not even trying to make a statement here. I just have a bizarre fascination with images of pollution

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>> No.4412621

>>4412611

Yeah look at those beautiful recycled pieces of plastic on that beach. I'm sure they also emptied all of the toxic fluids out of those vessels before they abandoned them.

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>> No.4412628

>>4412614
What if it's humanity's natural behavior to destroy its own environment?

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Keystone XL on the way soon transport this

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>> No.4412651

>>4412628

There's no such thing as one "natural" behaviour. Behaviour is the most malleable and adaptive trait of animals, second only to the epigenome. Behaviours are just actions that aid an organism in surviving and readily change according to the environment.

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>> No.4412657

>>4412651
And what if in the circumstance we find ourselves we end up destroying the natural environment?

>> No.4412659

>>4412621
It's a ship breaking yard. They are recycling the steel.

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>> No.4412667

>>4412659

Yes, I'm aware. This doesn't mean that these third world ship breaking yards are not massive sources of pollution.

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>>4412657

Then we need to stop.

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>> No.4412673

>>4412651

You're thinking of culture. "Behaviour", by and large, can be purely genetically determined and require long adaptive sellection to change, and therefore be no much more malleable than anatomy.

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>> No.4412679

>>4412616

>I just have a bizarre fascination with images of pollution

I know that feel. Although I'm more into the industrial imagery, love me some factories.

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>Muslims

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>>4412679
Me too! I have a "heavy industry" folder too. Oil platforms especially

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>> No.4412695

>>4412673
No, I wasn't thinking of culture. Culture is just a repertoire of behaviours that are passed down vertically in a population.

Yes, certain behaviours can be deeply rooted in genetic causes and may take a long time to change, but most aren't like that. Behaviour allows for very quick micro-adaptation that can take place within the same individual over the course of time, without a need for a change in the underlying genotype.

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Live in one of the colored areas? Enjoy dying earlier.

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>> No.4412712

This is fucked up.

Hopefully all this shit will kill us all one day.

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>>4412687
I fucking love this stuff too, but I barely have any pictures.

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>>4412687

Fuck yeah, I love oil rigs. Ships, trains, rockets, it's all good.

Thanks for the images.

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>> No.4412733

Here we go with the envirowhackos. Hey, losers, I'm gonna go hunting this weekend. I'm going to kill an extra deer just to piss you off! FUCK YOU LOSERS

>> No.4412751

>>4412733

Are you just trolling or do you actually feel that way? It's hard to figure out these things on the internet. Written text is extremely plain compared to the nuances of verbal conversation.

>> No.4412752

>>4412733

>I'm going to kill an extra deer just to piss you off!

Actually, that would make any intelligent environmentalist happy.

Deer have become an overpopulated nuisance because they have no natural predators anymore.

Hunt away.

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>> No.4412773

>>4412733
Yeah, being interested in the state of various environments isn't important. I mean, it only spawned us, right?

>> No.4412786

I used to be an environmentalist but studying geology has made me not give a shit about the environment...

I'm not sure how this makes me feel.

>> No.4412801

>>4412786

I've taken some undergrad geology and I don't see the connection. What about geology made you not care?

>> No.4412937

Because we are the ones who exploit the Earth for its natural resources.

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>>4412517
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFBijDU8PpE